Quotes About Tribute

Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.

I dare anybody to display a more amazing body of work than Tom Petty.

It is really disturbing to see that every Tom, Dick and Harry starts singing compositions of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan as there is no one to claim it.

On my left forearm, I've got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials 'E' and 'G' for my friend, the late Eddie Guerrero.

When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn't be any argument among us children, 'Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?' He thought about that. He said, 'preacher.' So that's what's going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

I kind of always made it a tradition, whenever Dream Theater played Toronto, to play a Rush cover.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

And so I wrote this book as a tribute to these most pathetic of creatures, in hopes that I might succeed in two noble pursuits: 1) helping even one person meet the horror movie odds, and 2) avoid being evicted from my apartment for back rent.

One other most notable happening in this king's reign was the laying upon Leinster of the famous Boru tribute — a crime which, for long centuries, was to be the cause of bloody wars that should shake the Island.

My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

Truly saddened by the loss of one of the greatest fashion icons of all time. Oscar de la Renta will be greatly missed.

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

And finally, my gratitude to UM 006, H, Mr. Blank, Ben, the big guy in the sweatpants, and the owners of the forty heads. You are dead, but you're not forgotten.

This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake—and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.

Sex is the physical expression of a tribute to personal values.

rituals of diplomacy, but also rituals of tribute to an empire.

The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.

The plenum concluded with a tribute dashed off to Stalin in which the participants exclaimed, "we cannot express in words the full force of our love for you," and pledged their readiness to "meet the enemy."4 The officials who made this vow of absolute loyalty did not know it then, but as it turned out, they were the enemy.

It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.